manufacture

Compared meaning: to make or produce something (verb).

比较义项：制造，做出某物（动词）。

• manufacture 本词

  Neutral, everyday word for industrial mass production of goods with machinery in a factory; used for cars, furniture, electronics, etc.

  中性的日常用词，指工厂用机器大批量生产商品；常用于汽车、家具、电子产品等。

  This plant will manufacture thousands of cars this year.

  这家工厂今年将生产数千辆汽车。

• fabricate

  More formal or technical; suggests constructing or assembling something, often a single item or structure, sometimes by hand rather than mass industrial production.

  较为正式或专业，强调建造或组装某个物件或结构，常指单件制作，有时是手工而非工业化大批量生产。

  Workers will fabricate the steel frame for the new bridge on site.

  工人将在现场制造这座新桥的钢架结构。

Manufacture and fabricate both mean to make something. Manufacture is neutral: to mass-produce goods with machines in a factory. Fabricate is more formal: to build or assemble something, often by hand, not by industrial mass production. Not compared: fabricate meaning to invent a lie.

两词在“制造、做出”这一义项上接近，但语气和使用场景不同：manufacture 是中性词，指工厂用机器大批量生产实物商品；fabricate 在这个意义上略显正式或书面，且常带有“临时拼凑、非正规组装”的意味，而不是工业化量产。这里不比较 fabricate 的另一义项“捏造（谎言、借口）”。

Compared meaning: producing or making goods (noun).

比较义项：生产、制造商品（名词）。

• industry

  Industry names a whole branch of economic activity, often the type of goods made (the car industry, heavy industry), combining with a preceding noun rather than describing a single act of producing a batch of goods.

  industry指整个经济行业或产业门类，常与表示商品类型的名词连用（如the car industry“汽车产业”、heavy industry“重工业”），一般不用来指某一批具体商品的生产制造行为。

  The car industry has changed a lot in ten years.

  十年间，汽车产业发生了很大变化。

• manufacture 本词

  Manufacture names the process of making goods, especially in large quantities by machine, and is typically followed by 'of' (the manufacture of cars) rather than used to label an entire economic sector.

  manufacture指用机器大批量制造商品的过程，常接of构成短语（如the manufacture of cars“汽车的制造”），并不用来指整个产业部门。

  Strict new rules now govern the manufacture of medical equipment.

  现在有严格的新规定来管理医疗设备的制造。

Both relate to producing goods. Industry names a whole branch of economic activity, often the type of goods made, like 'the car industry.' Manufacture names the process of making goods by machine, usually followed by 'of.' Not compared: industry meaning hard work.

industry与manufacture在这个意义上都跟“生产商品”有关，但侧重不同：industry指整个产业或经济部门，manufacture指具体的制造过程，语域也更正式、更偏技术性。这里不比较industry表示“勤奋”的义项。